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Cruz blocks Senate panel from holding vote to confirm Biden nominee for senior Mideast post
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Then-US ambassador to the UAE Barbara Leaf. (Tech. Sgt. Anthony Nelson Jr./US Air Force)
Republican Senator Ted Cruz has blocked the Foreign Relations Committee from convening today to vote on confirming US President Joe Biden’s nominee for State Department Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf, the panel’s chairman Bob Menendez says.
The committee was supposed to vote to confirm both Leaf and Biden’s nominee for special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt, but Republicans acted to block both matters.
Both are still expected to be confirmed though and a vote will be held at the next meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, though a date has not yet been set.
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